There is No Honor In College Football

“Accountability” and “character” are two words found in most college football articles, usually in reference to how student athletes are lacking in these key areas.  An honest assessment would, however, shine the light of truth where it is most needed – on college coaches.  These are the men who sit down over dinner with a family and mirror the values of each household, promising to take care of their son.

It is all deception.  Their talking points change at every stop.  Empty words and mottos are used to get commitment.  They look men and women in the eye and shake their hands, proclaiming to protect the family’s most valued resource – their child.  When the question of financial compensation is raised, it is drowned own by the convenience of college athletics, but with the same tongue they justify lateral coaching moves with being part of the business.

I personally am sick of the hypocrisy that exists with coaches claiming to place such an emphasis on accountability and character.  If a coach leaves a school for another job, he should have to sit out for one year, just as student athletes do.  The move by Lane Kiffin from Tennessee to USC after one year should be the final straw.  He preached team to the kids, but when an opportunity knocked, he told them he had to go because it was his dream job.

If a top quarterback goes to the NFL, would this same excuse fly for a quarter back whose dream was always to play at USC?  I would answer no because the commitment by students is expected to be upheld, while coaches are able to break their word with no real consequences.

Even the solution to one of these mercenary coaches lacks integrity after a school is left at the altar.  The first suggestions of a new one does the same thing to a smaller school, as we have seen the names of Tommy Tuberville and David Cutcliffe all over the media being suggested as the new hire at Tennessee.

The system is clearly broken, and if something is not done, we will see what the NCAA fears most – players speaking with agents more frequently, and cracking the whole façade of the purity of college athletics.

Big Board In Order By Talent Not a Mock

2010 Barzey’s Big Board
1	Ndamukong Suh – DT  Nebraska (6’ – 4”)
2	Eric Berry – Safety    Tennessee (6’ – 0”)
3	Russell Okung  – OT Oklahoma State (6’ – 5”)
4	C.J. Spiller – RB Clemson (5’ – 10”)
5	Anthony Davis – OT Rutgers (6’ – 6”)
6	Dez Bryant – WR Oklahoma St. (6’ – 3”)
7	Gerald McCoy – DT Oklahoma (6’ -4”)
8	Taylor Mays – Safety USC (6’ – 3”)
9	Carlos Dunlap – DE Florida (6’ – 6”)
10	Trent Williams – OT Oklahoma (6’ – 5”)
11	Rolando McClain – LB Alabama  (6’ – 4”)
12	Jimmy Clausen – QB Notre Dame (6’ – 3”)
13	Brandon Spikes – LB Florida (6’ – 3”)
14	Derrick Morgan – DE Georgia Tech (6’ 4”)
15	Sam Bradford – QB   Oklahoma (6’ – 4”)
16	Sergio Kindle – DE Texas (6’ – 4”)
17	Arrelious Benn – WR Illinois (6’ – 3”)
18	Greg Hardy – DE Ole Miss (6’ – 5”)
19	Cameron Heyward – DE Ohio State (6’ – 6”)
20	Jermaine Gresham – TE Oklahoma (6’ – 6”)
21	Golden Tate – Notre Dame (5’ – 11”)
22	Jonathan Dwyer – Georgia Tech (6’ – 0”)
23	Marty Gilyard – WR Cincinnati (6’ – 1”)
24	George Selvie – DE South Florida (6’ -4”)
25	Terrence Cody – DT Alabama (6’ – 5”)
26	Jahvid Best  – RB California  (5’ – 10”)
27	Jerry Hughes – DE TCU (6’ – 3”)
28	Marvin Austin – DT North Carolina (6’ – 3”)
29	Tony Pike – QB Cincinnati  (6’ – 6”)
30	Damien Williams – WR USC

2010 Draft Board

Our Perceptions are Making Choices

When I speak of perceptions im talking about GM’s in the NFL, and NBA we are at the point now where we have seen a lot of athletes with off the field problems and suspect work habits.

  This has now scared GM’s into comparing people and the chance that a guy might be Ron Artest is pushing them into bad decisions. The solution is for management to make the effort to get to know the player so it’s no surprise who their getting why? you might ask because they are doing this at the cost of what i get to see. 

I wanted to see Brandon Jennings in NY running Dantoni’s offense not Milwaukee. In San Diego I would rather see Percy Harvin out wide with gates over the middle. It comes down to this would you rather play it safe and keep your job an extra two years or look a prospect in the eyes and believe in him changing his life and become a Bill Poilian,Jerry West, Jerry Reece,or a Theo Epstein the choice is yours.

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